A book of this scale and scope incurs many debts of gratitude. We are first and foremost exceptionally grateful to Matt Goldstein, formerly the Acquisitions Editor at Pearson for the first two editions, championed the book and guided the overall process of bringing the book to market. Tracy Johnson, the Content Development Manager for Computer Science, navigated this edition through the complexities of the new electronic-first approach to textbook publishing. Louise Capulli was once again the very capable Project Manager who facilitated communication between the often finicky authors and the production team. Carole Synder from Pearson also contributed throughout the writing and production process. We would like to thank Pradeep Subramani and his team at Integra Software Services for the work they did on the postproduction side. We would also like to thank Rose Kernan, proofreader, who made sure that the words and illustrations actually work to tell a story that makes sense.
Reviewers help ensure that a textbook reflects more than just the authors’ perspective. For this edition, the book was immeasurably improved by our talented and close-eyed reviewer, Jordan Pratt of Mount Royal University. A variety of very helpful students provided inspirational feedback on labs and lecture material. Some of these include: Farsos Bulsara, Raj Dutta, Hamid Hemani, Peter Huang, Jason Hutson, Andrews Juchem, Sarfaraz Kermali, Shuntian Li, Robert Martin, Brett Miller, Peter Morrison, and Renato Niro. Indeed, to be honest, we should list all of our students over the past five years here, as they have improved our insight and acted as non-voluntary guinea pigs in the evolution of our thinking on teaching web development.
There are many others who helped guide our thinking, provided suggestions, or made our administrative and teaching duties somewhat less onerous. While we cannot thank everyone, Randy Connolly is especially grateful to Brigitte Jellinek for inviting him to spend a semester in 2017 at Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, as it provided early inspiration for many of the changes made in this edition. We would also like to express our gratitude to all the instructors who took the time to email us about the first two editions. Their praise, suggestions for improvements, or their admonition for mistakes or omissions was always very welcome and hopefully resulted in a better third edition.
We are very appreciative of those who donated photos for the Travel case study used throughout the book: Robert Boschman, Alexander Connolly, Norman Connolly, Mark Eagles, Sonya Flessati, Emily Girard, Mike Gouthro, Jordan Kidney, Roy Kuhnlein, and Jocelyn Sealy. For this edition, our Art case study was able to take advantage of the public-spirited and generous open content policies of the Rijksmuseum, the J. Paul Getty Museum, and the National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC).
From the early inception of the book in May of 2012 all the way to the conclusion of this edition in the late months of 2020, Dr. Janet Miller provided incredible and overwhelming encouragement, understanding, and feedback for which Randy Connolly will be always grateful. Joanne Hoar, holding a M.Sc. in computer science, has always been an inspiration for Ricardo Hoar, so he apologizes profusely for the systemic racism and sexism among computer science faculty that has excluded her, a brilliant programmer, from gainful employment in academia. Finally, we want to thank our children, Alexander Connolly, Benjamin Connolly, Mark Miller, Hann Miller, Archimedes Hoar, Curia Hoar, and Hypatia Hoar, who saw less of their fathers during this time but were always on our minds.